Hello,
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At the moment applications have to provide an icon >= 32x32px in
size
to be included in the AppStream metadata and shown in the software
center. This is *tiny* on a HiDPI screen, so should I mandate that all
applications ship a 64x64 (and ideally, 128x128/64x64@2 also) icon for
the shell and gnome-software, or should I just pad+scale icons for the
HiDPI case and make them look ridiculous?
This is $n-th gradual tightening of the rules, again affecting dozens if not hundreds of
packages, and the “ideally” note suggests that you plan to make the rules even stricter in
the future. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to try to look more into a future, and try to
do _one_ icon improvement pass that could last us for at least, say, 3 or 5 years? Just
ask for something like (1024x1024 bitmap or a SVG/PDF) by F22 Beta, to give us some future
proofing, perhaps?
(And I always thought that HiDPI is trying to keep the screen size of elements the same
and only add detail, which is inconsistent with displaying low-resolution icons in a
smaller physical size, but what do I know…)
Mirek